Nod, I've been patiently waiting for NWN to come out of beta for linux. When it does I'll gladly swing on over to some linux specific site to purchase it.
When I see games that come out on linux I try to pick them up to support the companies doing it. So, while it may not be as feature rich (no movies, no editor) in linux, I am telling the company they are moving in the right direction.
Personally I'd love to see Blizzard do some linux ports.
You see, I bought win2k last fall, but it will be my last MS purchase. If I do not support companies to port games to linux, there won't be any. Companies need to see a profitable reason to enter a sector, and each game I purchase makes that sector more profitable.
Extremism is not going to get games to linux. If NWN had be perfect and on time in linux, people would bitch that it wasn't open source. So its late, you bitch about that. So its not full featured, you bitch. So it isn't shipped with an installer, you bitch. I say, hey, its a start, and I like the direction you are moving in, I'll support you.
I choose to pray for them instead. Slashdot is not a theological discussion site, so I will spare you the education.
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Bummer. For this case anyways. I'm sure most folks not blocking pop-ups would rather it be locked in a safe for however many years are left on the patent.
Granted, pop-ups encourage the adoption of mozilla and such, which is always nice.
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Hmmm, kind of off topic (granted murder really isn't a topic covered by slashdot much).
If someone owns a patent for something, say pop-up ads. Then the person dies and is for obvious reasons unable to license the use of the tech that he patented, what happens?
Also assume he doesn't have any debtors to aquire the patent and he does not specify in the will that the patent goes anywhere specfically.
[offtopic] You get the choice to eat only non animal products. Quit bitching you don't have choices.
I choose to live as a Christian. I don't whine when I tithe. I don't whine when I choose not to do something morally wrong. I don't whine when I go to church on Sunday.
You see, I made a choice (theological arguements aside) to be a Christian, I accept the consequences and do not tell the world to change for me or give me more choices. [/offtopic]
[ontopic] Now to return to on topic. I choose to only use win2000 as my last MS operating system. Everything in my home runs linux other than a couple gaming machines for my wife and I (which dual boot). By imposing the restriction of not using MS products I have limited my choices, but that does not take away my original choice.
When my wife first used opera she could not use our bank's website. She understood the limitation she imposed on herself. I understand gnucash does not work with our bank, that is a choice I made not to use Quicken. [/ontopic]
[offtopic] Point is, if you make a choice to limit your choices later on, take responsibility for it and stop crying. Maybe things will improve if you lobby for changes. Only support vegan restaurants, write to restaurants requesting more vegan meals options. If you choose not to be in the norm, your choice is made by yourself. [/offtopic]
There are now doubts about the willingness of Russia to do so, because some of its prominent scientists apparently believe climate change could be beneficial to the country.
I love it. A little more arid land IN SOVIET RUSSIA!
Oh God, I feel dirty, I said "in soviet russia" in all caps. I think I need a shower. Atleast I didn't say something along the lines of ISR does you...
The EEA says the main reasons for the 2001 increase in all six gases were a colder winter in most EU countries, which meant householders burnt more heating fuel.
I love how its now called global climate change now, instead of global warming. If it were truly global warming they couldn't have used that statement.
Don't worry though, my karma burning will cause global warming now.:-P
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Hey, you gotta post non-AC, so I can set you as a friend. It'd be nice to see a report like this for idiots.
With both Afghanistan and Iraq the goal was remove the regimes in power at the time.
Though getting Bin Laden and Saddam would have been nice, neither was the goal. Anyone silly enough to pop up and say they are harboring either of the men wouldn't last long enough to 'yipe' from ass whooping they'd recieve.
As for under Clinton we also had Somalia incident and the Cole bombing. The Cole bombing I don't think should necessarily be laid at Clinton's feet, but a response to the the attack should not have gone unanswered, and even previously the original WTC bombing should have been responded to.
We don't write raw audio to the harddisk - we pipe it into oggenc or flac on the fly.
There's an idea, but I certainly need the noise filter before I can write to a lossy codec. And since I figured out the hdparm setttings things work fine, granted it take a ton of space (2gb for entire sermon).
It isn't audacity. It is strictly for recording. You can use audacity after you record with ardour.
Okey, my bad. It looked like it did recording and mixing, I assumed it could do the mixing/editing after the fact also.
We run on all donated equipment, much of it not that great. However, with the equipment described above we get crystal clear audio. (a professional sound engineer was amazed) In fact, we hooked the computer to a faulty output the other day and blew the soundcard, so we had to buy a new one.
Lucky.:-P I assume ours was donated since we are pretty much a small startup (~20 families). However, we still get a certain amount of fuzz in the background. It only seems to be on the output to tape and the aux output (which I record from) that has that fuzz though. To the speakers its very clear.
BTW, what soundcard are you using?
I am using the i810 soundcard in a sony laptop. Also using the ALSA drivers as the OSS driver does/did not support recording at the time I started playing with this.
(Audacity and sweep cause choppy audio in my experience)
I use the ALSA i810 (I think?) driver with a machine to record our church services. I was having trouble with audacity being choppy until I used some hdparm optimizations on the hard drive. With the laptop I was getting only 6.8m/s to the drive and after the hdparm opts I was getting 19m/s to the drive. That seemed to clear up the recording. My guess is that audacity was writing too large of blocks to the drive at a time hence strangling the CPU for those times.
Perhaps the ardour writes smaller chunks to the drive at a time?
Anyways, I have some questions about ardour here. Does it have some of the filters that audacity has? Specifically I am looking for the noise removal. We have far from the best equipment at church so it generates a lot of background fuzz that the noise removal in audacity cleans it up very well.
I despair that, even though the U.S. absolutely crushed an army once ranked 5th in the world, we're still getting told we need more military protection, more spending in weapons research, and a big shield to protect us from their nasty missles--- this when arms races have universally shown themselves to be precursors to major warfare throughout the history of mankind.
Wrong, cold war? I have yet to see the huge fall out of the arms race that occured during the cold war.
However, I have seen when military spending has diminished we have been hurt because of it. Consider Carter, we have folks captured in Iran(?) and then we send in folks to go rescue them and they get captured!
Consider Clinton, he cuts military spending and low and behold we have other embarassments under his watch.
Consider Bush, we have Afghanistan and Iraq, two decisive victories.
Yes, I want you to put your trust into the general sanity of other nations. Not "all" your trust, but enough trust not to hunker like a paranoid xenophobe under some supposedly impenetrable shield. And not "all" nations--there are going to be rogue nations. And the US should put sufficient trust in the rest of the world that if the US were to be attacked, alliances like NATO would come to their help.
Don't worry LA or New York or DC are taken out, trust your NATO brothers or friendly UN to... uh, nevermind I'm an idiot.
Its not about retaliations. Its about protecting the citizenry before an attack as such can be launched and people get killed.
Only takes one to start a fight. Or do you suggest appeasment? Heil Fuhrer? Is that truely peace?
Peace is a nice goal, don't get me wrong, I am not for creating wars. However, I am for ending them fast and decisively. I am for liberating the oppressed.
Explain how you deal peacefully with wicked men? Saddam would not have left willingly. He was asked to go into exile before the war, but refused. Should we have waited for him to die naturally? One of his sons or like minded minions would have taken power right afterwards.
What do you tell the people oppressed by wicked men? Just tough it out, things will be better in the next world?
Here is a decent quote/witty saying to add to your list.
Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! -- Patrick Henry
Totalitarianism is when a goverment oppresses its own people with absolute power. I am not suggesting that we oppress our own people, more protect them from other governments which desire harm to our people. Hence, saving our lives. Little difference there.
Or that your argument that we should keep pouring money into developing arms "until you can say without a doubt that noone will ever attack anyone else" not only ignores the fact that the same money could save lives in other ways (e.g. medical research) but also ignores the possibility that a certain nation already has such a military advantage that there is the ROI of continued research is quite low. When you already have an overwhelming advantage, having more of an overwhelming advantage seems pointless (and in the meantime, AIDS is still killing people).
Good point, its not like we are not allocating resources elseware though. So, -1 for thinking we can only do one thing at a time. You probably also think we should send food and humanitarian supplies to Iraq and not give work on setting up phone systems and training folks there to be self sufficient. Well, we are sending humanitarian supplies and also working on setting up phone systems along with a ton of other infrastructure.
Tell me does not this ROI also level off with money spent in other research areas? So, as you argue that ROI in military spending you also get the same thing in other research areas.
There is no such thing as a invincible military. As more countries gain nuclear arsenals the better we need to be prepared against it. The problem with research is that once the original is done, copying it is considerabley easier. When we were the only country to have nukes, it didn't take russia long to have them. Especially with weapons that have a low acuracey requirement and relatively high yeild (nukes and other wmd) that can be build for relatively low costs there is no such thing currently as overpowering force.
And, yes, until you can prove that N. Korea wouldn't try to go to war with S. Korea or anyone; Prove that China wouldn't want to go to war with Tiawan to reintegrate them into China; Prove that Jordan/Lybia/Egypt/etc wouldn't want to exterminate Isreal just cause they exist; Prove that every country would not go to war for any reason, military spending makes sense.
Crazy idea here. Sometimes a superior offense is the true defense for human life. If we fought in Iraq with the same weapons that the Iraqis had access to, we'd be there much longer and a lot more poeple would have died.
Technical superiority has proven itself in the last two years twice over where we have been able to keep two wars (not really full scale wars) go less time with fewer civilian causualties and combatant causualties so low.
The main point is that sometimes you need an overpowering offense to keep the peace. Research into that field is not wasted until you can say without a doubt that noone will ever attack anyone else. It only takes one side to instigate war, you might as well be prepared to end it as quick as possible.
I'll probably get modded offtopic cause some prick doesn't like what I have to say here, because they are so antiwar.
Why is this site so US-centric? If you USians would just use the SI system you'd get 62.5 times better ratio of prevention to cure. You'd have a gram of prevention is worth a kilogram of cure.
Geesh, I seem to have an anti-european streak today...
Something else to keep in mind - we're not exactly paying the big bucks on salary either, especially for NYC. The kind of people who use these computers are very frequently people on a welfare assistance program that requires you to work to get your welfare check. Most of the time, these are some pretty great people, but they didn't exactly grow up with a computer in the house... ease of use is a big issue, and I think that it's still safe to say that crown belongs to Microsoft.
To this, big deal. A couple years back I worked on an AS400, I didn't have one at home so I couldn't use one at work. Wrong.
These folks are not paid to work on configuring the OS or installing software, that is the admin's job. These folks are paid to use the software put in front of them.
When people cry that linux cannot because it is too difficult to use in business I get frustrated with their arguements. The softare in linux is not inherently more difficult to use. Mozilla vs IE, they do the same thing. OpenOffice.org vs MS Office, they do the same thing. The point is that the admin does his job, the users do their job. If the users are trying to do the admin's job, you have problems.
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Nod, I've been patiently waiting for NWN to come out of beta for linux. When it does I'll gladly swing on over to some linux specific site to purchase it.
When I see games that come out on linux I try to pick them up to support the companies doing it. So, while it may not be as feature rich (no movies, no editor) in linux, I am telling the company they are moving in the right direction.
Personally I'd love to see Blizzard do some linux ports.
You see, I bought win2k last fall, but it will be my last MS purchase. If I do not support companies to port games to linux, there won't be any. Companies need to see a profitable reason to enter a sector, and each game I purchase makes that sector more profitable.
Extremism is not going to get games to linux. If NWN had be perfect and on time in linux, people would bitch that it wasn't open source. So its late, you bitch about that. So its not full featured, you bitch. So it isn't shipped with an installer, you bitch. I say, hey, its a start, and I like the direction you are moving in, I'll support you.
So, how many usernames and passwords have you collected in Robot_pass_finder@hotmail.com?
I choose to pray for them instead. Slashdot is not a theological discussion site, so I will spare you the education.
Bummer. For this case anyways. I'm sure most folks not blocking pop-ups would rather it be locked in a safe for however many years are left on the patent.
Granted, pop-ups encourage the adoption of mozilla and such, which is always nice.
Hmmm, kind of off topic (granted murder really isn't a topic covered by slashdot much).
If someone owns a patent for something, say pop-up ads. Then the person dies and is for obvious reasons unable to license the use of the tech that he patented, what happens?
Also assume he doesn't have any debtors to aquire the patent and he does not specify in the will that the patent goes anywhere specfically.
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You get the choice to eat only non animal products. Quit bitching you don't have choices.
I choose to live as a Christian. I don't whine when I tithe. I don't whine when I choose not to do something morally wrong. I don't whine when I go to church on Sunday.
You see, I made a choice (theological arguements aside) to be a Christian, I accept the consequences and do not tell the world to change for me or give me more choices.
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Now to return to on topic. I choose to only use win2000 as my last MS operating system. Everything in my home runs linux other than a couple gaming machines for my wife and I (which dual boot). By imposing the restriction of not using MS products I have limited my choices, but that does not take away my original choice.
When my wife first used opera she could not use our bank's website. She understood the limitation she imposed on herself. I understand gnucash does not work with our bank, that is a choice I made not to use Quicken.
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Point is, if you make a choice to limit your choices later on, take responsibility for it and stop crying. Maybe things will improve if you lobby for changes. Only support vegan restaurants, write to restaurants requesting more vegan meals options. If you choose not to be in the norm, your choice is made by yourself.
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There are now doubts about the willingness of Russia to do so, because some of its prominent scientists apparently believe climate change could be beneficial to the country.
:-P
I love it. A little more arid land IN SOVIET RUSSIA!
Oh God, I feel dirty, I said "in soviet russia" in all caps. I think I need a shower. Atleast I didn't say something along the lines of ISR does you...
The EEA says the main reasons for the 2001 increase in all six gases were a colder winter in most EU countries, which meant householders burnt more heating fuel.
I love how its now called global climate change now, instead of global warming. If it were truly global warming they couldn't have used that statement.
Don't worry though, my karma burning will cause global warming now.
Hey, you gotta post non-AC, so I can set you as a friend. It'd be nice to see a report like this for idiots.
With both Afghanistan and Iraq the goal was remove the regimes in power at the time.
Though getting Bin Laden and Saddam would have been nice, neither was the goal. Anyone silly enough to pop up and say they are harboring either of the men wouldn't last long enough to 'yipe' from ass whooping they'd recieve.
As for under Clinton we also had Somalia incident and the Cole bombing. The Cole bombing I don't think should necessarily be laid at Clinton's feet, but a response to the the attack should not have gone unanswered, and even previously the original WTC bombing should have been responded to.
We don't write raw audio to the harddisk - we pipe it into oggenc or flac on the fly.
:-P I assume ours was donated since we are pretty much a small startup (~20 families). However, we still get a certain amount of fuzz in the background. It only seems to be on the output to tape and the aux output (which I record from) that has that fuzz though. To the speakers its very clear.
There's an idea, but I certainly need the noise filter before I can write to a lossy codec. And since I figured out the hdparm setttings things work fine, granted it take a ton of space (2gb for entire sermon).
It isn't audacity. It is strictly for recording. You can use audacity after you record with ardour.
Okey, my bad. It looked like it did recording and mixing, I assumed it could do the mixing/editing after the fact also.
We run on all donated equipment, much of it not that great. However, with the equipment described above we get crystal clear audio. (a professional sound engineer was amazed) In fact, we hooked the computer to a faulty output the other day and blew the soundcard, so we had to buy a new one.
Lucky.
BTW, what soundcard are you using?
I am using the i810 soundcard in a sony laptop. Also using the ALSA drivers as the OSS driver does/did not support recording at the time I started playing with this.
(Audacity and sweep cause choppy audio in my experience)
I use the ALSA i810 (I think?) driver with a machine to record our church services. I was having trouble with audacity being choppy until I used some hdparm optimizations on the hard drive. With the laptop I was getting only 6.8m/s to the drive and after the hdparm opts I was getting 19m/s to the drive. That seemed to clear up the recording. My guess is that audacity was writing too large of blocks to the drive at a time hence strangling the CPU for those times.
Perhaps the ardour writes smaller chunks to the drive at a time?
Anyways, I have some questions about ardour here. Does it have some of the filters that audacity has? Specifically I am looking for the noise removal. We have far from the best equipment at church so it generates a lot of background fuzz that the noise removal in audacity cleans it up very well.
I despair that, even though the U.S. absolutely crushed an army once ranked 5th in the world, we're still getting told we need more military protection, more spending in weapons research, and a big shield to protect us from their nasty missles--- this when arms races have universally shown themselves to be precursors to major warfare throughout the history of mankind.
Wrong, cold war? I have yet to see the huge fall out of the arms race that occured during the cold war.
However, I have seen when military spending has diminished we have been hurt because of it. Consider Carter, we have folks captured in Iran(?) and then we send in folks to go rescue them and they get captured!
Consider Clinton, he cuts military spending and low and behold we have other embarassments under his watch.
Consider Bush, we have Afghanistan and Iraq, two decisive victories.
Yes, I want you to put your trust into the general sanity of other nations. Not "all" your trust, but enough trust not to hunker like a paranoid xenophobe under some supposedly impenetrable shield. And not "all" nations--there are going to be rogue nations. And the US should put sufficient trust in the rest of the world that if the US were to be attacked, alliances like NATO would come to their help.
Don't worry LA or New York or DC are taken out, trust your NATO brothers or friendly UN to... uh, nevermind I'm an idiot.
Its not about retaliations. Its about protecting the citizenry before an attack as such can be launched and people get killed.
Only takes one to start a fight. Or do you suggest appeasment? Heil Fuhrer? Is that truely peace?
Peace is a nice goal, don't get me wrong, I am not for creating wars. However, I am for ending them fast and decisively. I am for liberating the oppressed.
Explain how you deal peacefully with wicked men? Saddam would not have left willingly. He was asked to go into exile before the war, but refused. Should we have waited for him to die naturally? One of his sons or like minded minions would have taken power right afterwards.
What do you tell the people oppressed by wicked men? Just tough it out, things will be better in the next world?
Here is a decent quote/witty saying to add to your list.
Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! -- Patrick Henry
Well, if you are not the obvious anonymous coward. Try logging in.
Anyways.
Or the fact that having an "overpowering offense to keep the peace" is called Totalitarianism?
Bzzt, wrong.
Totalitarianism is when a goverment oppresses its own people with absolute power. I am not suggesting that we oppress our own people, more protect them from other governments which desire harm to our people. Hence, saving our lives. Little difference there.
Or that your argument that we should keep pouring money into developing arms "until you can say without a doubt that noone will ever attack anyone else" not only ignores the fact that the same money could save lives in other ways (e.g. medical research) but also ignores the possibility that a certain nation already has such a military advantage that there is the ROI of continued research is quite low. When you already have an overwhelming advantage, having more of an overwhelming advantage seems pointless (and in the meantime, AIDS is still killing people).
Good point, its not like we are not allocating resources elseware though. So, -1 for thinking we can only do one thing at a time. You probably also think we should send food and humanitarian supplies to Iraq and not give work on setting up phone systems and training folks there to be self sufficient. Well, we are sending humanitarian supplies and also working on setting up phone systems along with a ton of other infrastructure.
Tell me does not this ROI also level off with money spent in other research areas? So, as you argue that ROI in military spending you also get the same thing in other research areas.
There is no such thing as a invincible military. As more countries gain nuclear arsenals the better we need to be prepared against it. The problem with research is that once the original is done, copying it is considerabley easier. When we were the only country to have nukes, it didn't take russia long to have them. Especially with weapons that have a low acuracey requirement and relatively high yeild (nukes and other wmd) that can be build for relatively low costs there is no such thing currently as overpowering force.
And, yes, until you can prove that N. Korea wouldn't try to go to war with S. Korea or anyone; Prove that China wouldn't want to go to war with Tiawan to reintegrate them into China; Prove that Jordan/Lybia/Egypt/etc wouldn't want to exterminate Isreal just cause they exist; Prove that every country would not go to war for any reason, military spending makes sense.
What is escape velocity of the earth?
Is this possible to design as a orbital launch method?
Maybe we can test to see how certain materials handle extreme force.
Crazy idea here. Sometimes a superior offense is the true defense for human life. If we fought in Iraq with the same weapons that the Iraqis had access to, we'd be there much longer and a lot more poeple would have died.
Technical superiority has proven itself in the last two years twice over where we have been able to keep two wars (not really full scale wars) go less time with fewer civilian causualties and combatant causualties so low.
The main point is that sometimes you need an overpowering offense to keep the peace. Research into that field is not wasted until you can say without a doubt that noone will ever attack anyone else. It only takes one side to instigate war, you might as well be prepared to end it as quick as possible.
I'll probably get modded offtopic cause some prick doesn't like what I have to say here, because they are so antiwar.
Karma whoring for europeans is now a job?
Doh! My bad.
Actually, American.
Why is this site so US-centric? If you USians would just use the SI system you'd get 62.5 times better ratio of prevention to cure. You'd have a gram of prevention is worth a kilogram of cure.
Geesh, I seem to have an anti-european streak today...
Does anyone else think those dilbertisms (like "cow-orker") are incredibly stupid?
And, no. Probably just you. Btw, you have a balding center to you head and a couple tufts of hair on the edges?
Its a Dilbertism.
Something else to keep in mind - we're not exactly paying the big bucks on salary either, especially for NYC. The kind of people who use these computers are very frequently people on a welfare assistance program that requires you to work to get your welfare check. Most of the time, these are some pretty great people, but they didn't exactly grow up with a computer in the house... ease of use is a big issue, and I think that it's still safe to say that crown belongs to Microsoft.
To this, big deal. A couple years back I worked on an AS400, I didn't have one at home so I couldn't use one at work. Wrong.
These folks are not paid to work on configuring the OS or installing software, that is the admin's job. These folks are paid to use the software put in front of them.
When people cry that linux cannot because it is too difficult to use in business I get frustrated with their arguements. The softare in linux is not inherently more difficult to use. Mozilla vs IE, they do the same thing. OpenOffice.org vs MS Office, they do the same thing. The point is that the admin does his job, the users do their job. If the users are trying to do the admin's job, you have problems.
Oh, that is just plain old mean. Comparing worms to RIAA and MPAA folks. Give the worms some dignity. Show them some respect.
Just for kicks, you can check out Linux Journal for Microsoft ads. I don't know if their website has them, but the hard copy does.